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TIL that a study published in the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy found no correlation between rates of gun ownership and rates of murder and suicide while in some regions, high rates of gun ownership negatively correlated with violent crime.

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l7N1K TIL that chickens are actually native to Southeast Asia and Southwest China; they were brought around the world by trading.
E1dA7 TIL that Doritos were invented at Disneyland. A food salesman noticed Disney was throwing away their stale tortillas and told them to fry them instead. He loved the resulting chips so much he got Frito-Lay to distribute them nationally.
9w6e6 TIL Motorola invented the car radio, and the company’s name comes from this “Motorized Victrola”
epKmn TIL about Whittier, Alaska. Most of the town lives in 1 building, called the Begich Towers Condominium, thus giving Whittier the nickname “town under one roof”
wLR4M TIL that Thomas Edison proposed to his future wife in morse code, she accepted in the same way.